Summary
s.1The Mahāsūtra “Illusion’s Net” is a discourse taught by the Buddha Śākyamuni to an assembly of monks in Śrāvastī. The Buddha starts by mentioning the three trainings, in discipline, contemplation, and wisdom, and emphasizes the paramount importance of the training in wisdom, which brings to perfection the other two trainings too. He goes on to describe how we should train in wisdom by examining the futility and folly of our emotional reactions to what we perceive. Discussing each of the five sense perceptions and mental perception in succession, the Buddha describes how ordinary sensory and mental perceptions are deluded, and how getting caught up in the bonds of that delusion traps us in pain and regret. His systematic descriptions of the different perceptions are supplemented by individual analogies, illustrating the “net of illusion” to which the title refers.
s.1《幻網大經》是釋迦牟尼佛在舍衛城為眾多比丘所開示的經文。佛陀開始提到三學—戒、定和智慧—並強調智慧的訓練至為重要，它能完善另外兩種訓練。他進而說明我們應該如何通過審視我們對所感知事物所產生的情緒反應的虛妄和愚蠢來訓練智慧。佛陀依次討論五根識和心識，描述了普通的感官知覺和心識是如何被迷惑的，以及被這種迷惑的束縛所困而陷入痛苦和悔恨。他對不同知覺的系統描述輔以個別的比喻，說明了經題所指的「幻網」。